100+ Confucius Quotes & Sayings

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
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Character Inspirational Life One Liner Thinking
If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.
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Entrepreneur Respect Room Value
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
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Business Entrepreneur Man Superior Understand
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
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Future Present Regards Respect Youth
They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.
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Change Happiness Hustle Inspirational Wisdom
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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Inspirational Perfection Polish Trials
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
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Common Man Minimalism Simplicity Wise
If you don’t want to do something,don’t impose on others.
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Freedom Goals Inspirational One Liner
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
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Consider Goodness Kindness Life One Liner Society
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
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Fear Healing Heart Inspirational Worry
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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Education Labour Learning Lost Thinking
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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Human Nature Music One Liner Pleasure
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.
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Goals Inspirational Learning Reach Scared
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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Forget Hear Remember Understand
To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
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Coward Fear One Liner Right
The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
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Door Wisdom
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
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Abandonment Advice Fault Life One Liner Success
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
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Beginning Name One Liner Respect Wisdom
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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Beast Feelings Men Respect
Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you.
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Deep Fools Hate One Liner Respect
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
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Attack Evil One Liner Responsiblity Yourself
The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.
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Healing Inspirational Journey One Liner Step Travel
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
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Children Education Inspirational Planning Plant Rice
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
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Fingure Man Wisdom Wise
I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.
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Concern Fame Seek Worth
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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Action Man Speech Superior
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living.
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Death Eyes Honor Life Live

Confucius Quotes

Famous Chinese philosopher